Simone Post

Ode to Yarn

For Vitra, a furniture manufacturer, Simone Post created an iconic textile collection centred around sustainable yarn. She designed a 100% cotton blanket in three colour variations. Half of the yarn used is already recycled. In addition, the blankets are made from a single material, so that they can be recycled again. The blankets are an ode to the yarn Post inherited from her grandmother, who sewed, knitted, crocheted, knotted and embroidered her own clothes and accessories all her life. The knowledge of these techniques is disappearing with Post’s grandmother’s generation. As a result, fewer and fewer people know how much time, material and energy goes into producing textiles.

In the TextielLab, Post and Judith Peskens developed a woven fabric that celebrates textile craftsmanship. Each fabric has only four colours. However, by combining them in different ways using a variety of weaves, brightly coloured and tactile blankets were created that highlight the beautifully depicted bobbins, balls and skeins of yarn, cords and knots. The blankets were presented in Milan during Salone del Mobile 2024.

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Photos amongst others by Titia Hahne